After our initial visit to Ubud, we spent three nights in the town of Candidasa, along the southeast coast (see map). Although the town's beach has been eroded away, Candidasa still makes a convenient base for exploring sites like Goa Lawah (the Bat Cave Temple) and Pura Besakih (Bali's holiest temple complex). We stayed at the Watergarden hotel, a lovely place with pleasant bungalows surrounded by lotus ponds filled with carp.

	Children playing on the beach.		The beach is now to small to attract tourists, but the locals still take advantage of it.
	Despite the erosion, the water's still obviously refreshing.		Andy feeding the carp in the pond adjacent to our bungalow. The hotel gave us a container of food pellets so we could feed the fish to our heart's content.
	The carp obviously enjoy the food pellets.		Closeup of the carp.
	Susanne relaxing on our private patio.		The patio makes a convenient place to relax and read a book.
	In this case, Susanne's reading Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, perfect tropical reading.		The hotel decorated our bed with frangipani flowers during our first afternoon.
	Andy enjoys a drink from the hotel bar.		Andy sporting a frangipani flower. Try getting away with that in Washington DC...
	One of the many exotic plants surrounding our bungalow.		Just outside Candidasa are beautiful rice paddies.
	The Kedai restaurant, one of the best restaurants in Bali. Like many restaurants in Bali, it's constructed in the style of a traditional open-air pavilion, or bale.		Local fisherman patching up their boats.
	Bali's boats are often decorated like fish or with Hindu symbols, like the swastika in the background (which has no connection to Nazism in Hindu cultures).